From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:40:07 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore: regex for the current dir files only?
Message-ID: <7virnccquw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87mzcol7i3.wl@mail2.atmark-techno.com>

Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com> writes:

> because we have "vmlinux*" in the toplevel .gitignore in linus's tree,
> all vmlinux.lds.S under arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/ is affected. for kernel,
> it might as easier to remove "*" from the exp.  but I was wandering if
> it's worth to have an expression for gitignore to handle "a regex for
> the current dir only"?

Yeah, that would be a very useful thing to have.  Something like
this?

#!/bin/sh

rm -rf test
mkdir -p test/a/b/c
cd test
git init-db

date >a/vmlinux.1
date >a/b/vmlinux.2
date >a/b/c/vmlinux.3

echo 'vmlinux*' >a/.gitignore
echo '!/vmlinux*' >a/b/.gitignore

git status -u